CONFLICTING MESSAGES. REGARDING RUMANIA

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 134, 3 December 1915, Page 7

CONFLICTING MESSAGES. REGARDING RUMANIA

CONCENTRATION OF ENEMY AT RUSTCHUK

(Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON, Ist December. The Paris 'Press states that from Salonika German aviation stations have been organised along the Bulgarian coast. It is authoritatively stated that 120,000 Turks will be sent to assist in the defence of Bulgaria. Fifty thousand Austro-German troops are arriving at Rustchuk (the Bulgarian port on the Danube), where their concentration is intended to impress Rumania, who has closed the Danube as far as the Bulgar frontier, claiming her right to police the river. The Times correspondent at Bucharest states that large supplies of munitions have arrived at Rustchuk, with seven locomotives, and that quarters have been prepared for the Austro-Germans in the schools and public buildings. Rumania insists on Rumanian pilots boarding all vessels. Conflicting messages are arriving from Bucharest. The Danish Press asserts that Rumania has notified Russia of her ernest wish to remain neutral, and consequently will not allow the Russian navy to enter the Danube, emphasising the dangers from mines. Pro-Germans in Rumania are forming a so-called Patriotic League, their programme including the conquest of Bessarabia and joining the Central Powers. M. Maghiloman and other ex-Ministers have joined the- league. The Paris Press asserts that there is every reason for optimism, and that the entiy of Rumania on the side of the .Allies is assured. The Temps correspondent at Bucharest states that the German Minister at the capital recently remarked: "I am less considered here than the representative of Montenegro !" Other telegrams announce that Port Kola is being enlarged for the shipment of munitions, and that Rumania has arranged for the transportation of Russian munitions and goods across her railways. London regards the Danish Press as being "the victims of the despairing efforts of German agents." ENEMY/8 TEMPTING TERRITORIAL OFFERS. ATHENS, Ist December. Mr. Martin Donohoe (the Dsily Chronicle's correspondent) says that despite M. Bratiano's reiteration of the neutrality of Rumania, it is believed thai the renewed Austro-German influences will in some degree be successful, as a result of the tempting territorial offers which have been dangled before M. Braiiano. GERMAN RALWAYS CONGESTED. „,. ~ ,_!,,„ ROTTERDAM, U December. me railways ot west and south Germany aro congested, and the Swiss frontier has been closed. It is believed that a concentration of German troops for eastward movement is proceeding. Even Germans are not permitted to enter the Fatherland.